garden map

why

when you land somewhere new, what feeling does that place bring to you?

on most of the text-centric internet websites, i found a sense of exhaustion. not to romanticize the 2000's creative personal websites (that are indeed fun!), but also caring for ease of use, information design and data storage. the few modern websites that i really like (found by spending hundreds of hours doing research) still only brought me a sense of surprise, excitement or interest. delight, relief, a sense of home are a different thing. they're hard to come by. much harder to craft, especially already inside of the context of modern browsers and data siloes.

many amazing ideas that i know i'd love to know are stuck in dry academic papers, without taking advantage of the dynamic medium we find ourselves in. something like open knowledge maps indeed can support the discovery, but many of francis miller's principles for information design and presentation for example are still far from implemented. and LLMs are obviously still very limited (and text-centric).

so when you land on my garden, what do i hope you feel?

both a sense of excitement, fun, discovery, as well as calmness and a recognition of the territory/possible journeys ahead of you.

the map

this is a playful, very low-fidelity artsy knowledge visualization experiment that i started as i wanted to visualize what the topology of my digital garden looked like. the data isn't factual (yet).

inspired by:
https://tomcritchlow.com/map/
https://hermitage.utsob.me/
https://diagram.website/
wardley mapping and the concept of information ecologies.

i intend to make this eventually as a procedurally-generated (constantly updating) map, sourcing data from my obsidian vault, but using something like juggl, infranodus, or some kind of map-making tool.

this way you can have a glimpse at the knowledge ecology being tended to here and have a big picture view to help you navigate this content.

another option would be to filter by more conventional topics/tags that can help you navigate (see below).

topic-based map

phase 1:

~ under construction, clickable soon ~

shows: topics, content, sources (relationships & weights for each: resonance, practical relevance, stage/readiness)

phase 2:

~ under construction, clickable soon ~

unlocks:

prototypes,

references map

another view:

other resources

another ref: